This paper presents an approach for teaching and learning dc-dc converter design using MathCAD. MathCAD provides advantages that greatly improve teaching and learning process especially when long and complicated design equations are involved such as those found in dc-dc converters. A design example using Excel is presented and then compared with the same example using MathCAD. Experience learne...

Step-up dc-dc converters have to cope with extremely low input voltages when used in combination with energy harvesting sources like thermogenerators, inductive generators or solar cells. The presented dc-dc converter is characterized by a high efficiency, up to 70 % in the input voltage range between 200 mV and 500 mV, and a minimum start-up voltage of 70 mV. It can deliver an output power of ...

This paper proposes a new two-stage inverter based on transformer-less high gain DC-DC converter for energy conversion of a photovoltaic system. The designed system consists of a high gain DC-DC converter cascaded with a three-phase inverter. The proposed DC-DC converter has a simple structure, and it has one switch in its structure. The output voltage of the DC-DC converter supplies DC source ...

An ultra-high gain DC-DC converter with single-switch structure is introduced in this paper. Full soft-witching provided by simultaneous use of quasi-resonant performance one resonant tank and leakage inductance a three-winding coupled inductor (CI). Adopting the secondary tertiary windings CI separated voltage multiplier cells enables to provide gain. The reverse recovery problem resolved than...

Except for direct energy transfer power systems, a pulsewidth modulation switching dc/dc converter controlled by the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm has been used to extract the maximum power of photovoltaic (PV) in PVbattery power systems. Recently, three-port converters, interfacing one PV port, one bidirectional battery port, and one load port of a PV-battery dc power system, a...

A novel Inductive Contactless Energy Transfer (ICET) system is presented in this paper. The energy is transferred using a rotatable air gap transformer and a power electronic converter. To minimize total losses of the system a series resonant circuit is applied, assuring zero current switching condition for IGBT power transistors. The analytical expression of the transfer dc voltage gain is giv...

This paper proposes a stand-alone photovoltaic (PV) system based on a DC-DC positive output super lift Luo (POSLL) converter. A conventional sliding mode control, a sliding mode controller using a simple sign function and a linear controller using proportional integrator (PI) are used for the control of the PV panel voltage and POSLL converter inductor current and these methods are compared tog...

In this paper, a new high efficiency, high step-up, non-isolated, interleaved DC-DC converter for renewable energy applications is presented. In the suggested topology, two modified step-up KY converters are interleaved to obtain a high conversion ratio without the use of coupled inductors. In comparison with the conventional interleaved DC-DC converters such as boost, buck-boost, SEPIC, ZETA a...

In this study, to achieve the constant current drive and brightness control without a separate pulse width modulation (PWM) converter, a single converter is designed and verified by experiment under the condition of a multiple LED light load with different output voltage (Vf) characteristics. In the case of the input of 140 Watt class level, the proposed converter can drive two voltage type 95 ...

This paper presents the analysin ,design and implementation of a high voltage ratio topology of DC-DC converter. The DC-DC converter has high voltage ratio with reduced input current, output voltage and output current ripple, and also reduces the voltage and current rating of power electronics components and compared with conventional boost converter. The voltage stress on the switches are  red...